Tips for Getting Baby to Move
QUESTION
Dear Midwife,
I'm 30 weeks pregnant and my baby isn't moving that much during the day.
Do you have any tips?
ANSWER
Be grateful that your child has rest periods. If you are lucky, it will still have them once it is born!
Seriously, just make sure that you eat a little something every two hours when you are awake, but you may just have a mellow child, or one that already has its days and nights mixed up :-).
-- Cynthia, CNM. PhD.
Cynthia Flynn
Cynthia Flynn, CNM. PhD, is the General Director of the Family Health and Birth Center which provides prenatal, birth, postnatal, gynecological and primary health care to underserved women and their families in Washington, D.C. Recently Cynthia served as Associate Professor of Nursing at Seattle University. There she not only taught, but remained in full scope clinical midwifery practice at Valley Medical Center where she cared for pregnant and birthing women, and practices well-woman gynecology, family planning, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
Cynthia founded Columbia Women's Clinic and Birth Center, where she took care of pregnant women and infants up to two weeks of age and attended both birth center and hospital births. Before Cynthia earned her CNM, she worked as a registered nurse in labor and delivery and postpartum and is a certified Doula and Doula trainer.
